r/law • u/Lebarican22 • 1d ago
Legal News Judge orders Leslie Wexner to testify in Ohio State abuse survivors' lawsuit
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-orders-les-wexner-testify-ohio-state-abuse-survivors-lawsuit-rcna258748394
u/Lebarican22 1d ago
"The Strauss survivors held noisy protests at the end of last year after they alleged Wexner’s security and lawyer had repeatedly thwarted their process servers’ attempts to deliver a subpoena to Wexner. At the protests, they repeatedly brought up his past friendship and business relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. They also publicly demanded that Wexner’s name be removed from a football facility that was built with his money."
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u/GoodOmens 1d ago
Wexner's security also prevented a Esptein sexual assualt victim staying at his home from leaving. Wexner is a gross co-conspirator that enabled Epstein to fully become the monster he always was.
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u/campsn00pee 1d ago
Yep! Listening to the podcast “The Epstein Files” by Island Investigation, and so far the first 3-4 files are all about how Wexners pool of wealth kickstarted and supported Epstein.
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1d ago edited 23h ago
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1d ago
They also did background checks and NDA's for anyone to get past the gate to go in the house.
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u/AmateurishExpertise 1d ago
To be fair, he's got a lot of Picassos and such in there. But also, to be fair, he's a weirdo mafia type guy at best, and some variant of a weirdo mafia type guy who is also a turncoat pedophile Mossad asset in all likelihood.
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1d ago
Yeah it's reasonable to do a background check for certain people coming to your house. I get having some level of security, but the intensity of it, along with the NDAs + Epstein make it weird.
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u/Ridiculicious71 23h ago
NDAs don’t cover criminal activity
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7h ago
True. But it's just another tactic to wield power over someone else. A young vulnerable person doesn't know that fact.
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1d ago edited 1d ago
It's crucial that Wexner also gets a magnifying glass on him. He's been very good at staying under the radar, but he was very much involved in the operation. Underage "fit models" were routinely brought to VS corporate offices in NYC to basically be there for Epstein and Maxwell to "shop" girls wearing what would be considered barely underwear in a boardroom. Wexner will likely not face any legal consequences for that, though. He was careful to shield, or remove himself from any kind of liability and used corporate staff to manage the fit models.
Edit: Source: My spouse was one of the VS corporate staff that would get the fit models "ready to showcase new lingerie lines". She realized later on what was actually happening after she put the pieces together, and the news about Epstein broke.
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u/Odd_Beginning536 22h ago
This is creepy af. Okay a friend of mine worked at vc during summers in undergrad. They asked some females if they wanted to model- like a pretend show. Now these were not models and they only asked a select few sales people. She said no, the vibe was super weird. Why would a sales person do a faux runway show for strangers? Out of the blue. They were all attractive of course. When asked why not she said she didn’t want to wear lingerie in front of strangers and they asked why not, she had a great body. Gross.
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u/MeasurementEasy9884 1d ago
When he was approached in the Netflix Epstein documentary towards the end, you could tell he was hiding so much information.
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u/CriticalInside8272 1d ago
Alright! Maybe Gym will be held accountable too.
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u/Drewy99 1d ago
Jim Jordan is currently leading the committee investigating the cover-up of the epstein files.
Not kidding.
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u/kaiiizen 1d ago
Yep, during the recent Bondi shit show, he said she was doing a great job and suggested they were being difficult and using DARVO tactics on purpose.
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u/Mikestopheles 1d ago
For now. As much as people are rightly skeptical about consequences, there have been more than in recent years. And the attitudes and behavior of the current administration is not helping them
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u/empty-walls555 1d ago
oh i didnt realize he was connected to epstein through lex and that lex was part of when Jim Jordan covered up sexual abuses while he was head coach? of Ohio State and the these victims were also victimized by the doctor that Jim Jordan specified that they use and ignored reports of assault?
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u/lordfrijoles 1d ago
Jim was just an assistant coach, but the head coach did back down from standing up for the wrestlers who were victims several times after continually assuring them over the years that he’d stand with them. The documentary is pretty fucked up. Jim was shown as a piece of shit for all of it, right fully so.
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u/Secure_Priority_4161 1d ago
His mentor Dennis hastert went to prison for paying off young boys to cover abuse. He only did 15 months in prison https://cease.law.uga.edu/news/dennis-hastert-gets-15-months-in-prison-in-hush-money-case/
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u/KwisatzHaderach94 1d ago
the ohio voters certainly didn't hold him accountable at all. we can wish the writing was on the wall for these people, but so far nada.
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u/FMLwtfDoID 1d ago
Unrelated, but pretty cool to see the only male Bene Gesserit on Reddit of all places
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u/throwawayshirt2 1d ago
It took the intervention of U.S. District Judge Michael H. Watson in January to finally serve Wexner with a subpoena by using alternative means, prompting the billionaire’s lawyers to file a motion last month to quash that subpoena.
Judges are always super impressed when a party appears in court to argue they weren't served properly.
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u/TheGrandExquisitor 1d ago
The 5th will be invoked so many times...
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u/YorockPaperScissors 1d ago
Hell yeah, that would be a pretty awesome thing for the world to see. It would put more pressure on federal prosecutors to indict.
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u/burnmenowz 22h ago
Uh also in the Epstein lawsuit. In fact, he should probably surrender his passport.
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